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Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics?

Graham Farmelo's authorised biography of Stephen Hawking has just been published. The title of this Oxford Mathematics Roger Penrose Public Lecture is the same as the one that Hawking chose for his Lucasian Inaugural Lecture in April 1980. Graham will look at the genesis of his presentation, the splash it made and how views on the subject changed in later decades.

Graham Farmelo is a biographer and science writer. He has written an acclaimed biography of Paul Dirac as well as his biography of Stephen Hawking.

Deep Hilbert--Galerkin Methods for Infinite-Dimensional PDEs and Optimal Control

Cohen, S Feo, F Hebner, J Sirignano, J (19 Mar 2026) https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19463v1

The Exponentially Weighted Signature

Bloch, A Cohen, S Lyons, T Mouterde, J Walker, B (19 Mar 2026) https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19198v1

A Game-Theoretic Unital Classification Theorem for $C^*$-Algebras

Pi, J Szachniewicz, M Tartarotti, M (05 Jan 2026) https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01735v2

Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics?

The title of this Oxford Mathematics Roger Penrose Public Lecture by Graham Farmelo is the same as the one that Stephen Hawking chose for his Lucasian Inaugural Lecture in April 1980. Graham Farmelo's authorised biography of Stephen Hawking has just been published.

$p$-adic Maass--Shimura operators on $μ$-ordinary Igusa varieties

Graham, A Hoften, P Howe, S (08 Jul 2026) https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07427v1

The non-abelian Leopoldt conjecture and equalities of $\mathcal{L}$-invariants

Salazar, D Graham, A Williams, C (19 Mar 2026) https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18961v2

Mon, 30 Nov 2026

16:30 - 17:30

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(University of Warwick)

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Mon, 19 Oct 2026

15:30 - 16:30

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Verena Schwarz

((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))

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